Innholdsfortegnelse for March 14-27, 2022 i New York Magazine

IN A PARKING-LOT-ADJACENT patio behind a low-slung building in Burbank, California, one recent morning, Jeff Hasler, a Gen-Xer who runs Original Productions, which makes documentary and unscripted programming, is holding a summit with his staff. The employees, younger than he by a decade or more, sit around folding tables, some wearing combat boots, others in hoodies, munching on sandwiches. They’re here to give their boss feedback. Why, they wonder, did Hasler feel the need to be at every pitch meeting? Could he please explain the chain of command? And what about that deal they were told to chase that was clearly never going to happen? “That was my mistake,” says Hasler, tapping his blue suede shoes. He looks pleadingly in the direction of a judicious-seeming woman with chunky tortoiseshell sunglasses…

FEB 23 Russian forces surround Ukraine on three sides. The U.S. warns that an invasion is imminent. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy declares a state of emergency. Aleksey, 26, a printing manager in Kyiv  I was standing with my friend on the Yurkovytsia Mountain, which overlooks the whole city, and we joked, “Just imagine—bombs are going to fall on Kyiv.” Viktoriia hutorna, 24, a television journalist in Kyiv In the middle of the day, I texted my English teacher. We were supposed to meet, and she said, “I’m sorry. I totally forgot about our lesson.” She had decided to leave Ukraine at the last minute and was on her way to the airport. I said, “Why didn’t you tell me before? I might have planned something else.” So now I had…

FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS, Tammie Teclemariam has been roaming the city as New York’s diner-at-large—tasked with eating her way through as many of the city’s 20,000 bars and restaurants as possible. So far, she’s averaged two restaurants a day (though a particularly ambitious two-day stretch involved a breakfast in Crown Heights, a pasta lunch in Williamsburg, a second breakfast in Chinatown, pizza on Orchard Street, a quick stop for noodles on the Bowery, then a late-night visit to Queens for some squid and hookah). On the following pages, we’ve collected a sampling of the crucial intel she’s accumulated so far—the only thing worth snacking on at Barclays Center, for instance, and a high-end sushi counter in Sheepshead Bay that’s refreshingly devoid of finance guys. For more in-depth dispatches, sign…

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL’S adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel The Lost Daughter is conversation-piece cinema—the kind that audiences see and then argue about. Tenderhearted yet elliptical and mysterious, this version gives viewers the mental space to form their own answers to questions it raises but leaves hanging: Is our heroine, a Harvard professor named Leda (played in her 40s by Olivia Colman and as a younger woman by Jessie Buckley), a bad mother or disturbed person for leaving her children for three years? Why does Leda become fixated on a young mother (Dakota Johnson’s Nina) during a beach vacation in Greece? And are the various outrages, accidents, and acts of emotional and physical violence avoidable or inevitable? Gyllenhaal’s writing and directing are bold—particularly the decision to adapt a first-person narrative as a…

THE FUTURE LOOKS quietly but unmistakably Asian in After Yang. It looks that way in a lot of films, and it’s usually also dystopian, dense, and grimy, lit by neon hanzi or, in one of the most famous images in Blade Runner (and movies in general), a luminous geisha smiling down on a gloomy neo–Los Angeles. Western filmmakers who have found the details of present-day eastern cities exotic enough to repurpose them and create a sense of temporal distance have, consciously or not, made those borrowed trappings a symptom of societies becoming more callous and crowded, more foreign, while centering on main characters who invariably are not. The imagination can accommodate a shift in the cultural baseline, can even find cool in it, as long as it’s understood to signify…

IN LATE 2018, the United Nations published its landmark IPCC study “Global Warming of 1.5°C.” Sometimes called the “Doomsday” report, it outlined the dramatic outcomes—150 million additional deaths from air pollution, once-a-century floods hitting every year—if the world became just half a degree warmer than the Paris Agreement’s stated goal of limiting warming to one and a half degrees above the preindustrial average. To the shock of many scientists and activists who had wondered for years why no one really engaged with flaring climate warnings like these, the report literally changed the world, first inspiring a hyperbolic turn in newspaper headlines, then igniting a wildfire of global alarm that burned bright for several years. That alarm led to the canonization of Greta Thunberg, gave prominence to Extinction Rebellion in the…

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY under Donald Trump is obsessed with crime. In its efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, it has cast Democratic victories as illegal and illegitimate. In order to win elections in the future, it has passed a slew of restrictive voting laws on the state level that characterize Democratic votes as fraudulent. And to conjure a climate of fear, it has depicted Democratic-controlled metropolises as being overrun by murderers and overwhelmed by violence. The GOP wants voters to see crime everywhere—at the ballot box, swallowing cities whole. Crime has long been a fruitful fixation for Republicans. From Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush, “law and order” posturing from the right has sent Republicans to the White House and put Democrats on the defensive. Trump’s evocation…

TV 1. Watch WeCrashed WeActed. Apple TV+, March 18. Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway go all out in their portrayals of Adam and Rebekah Neumann, the high-intensity couple at the center of WeWork. Yes, for those keeping track, this is yet another scripted series about a major business story based on a podcast. JEN CHANEY MOVIES 2. See Turning Red Straight to streaming. Disney+. This Pixar film by director Domee Shi is an absolute gem about a dorky Chinese Canadian 13-year-old who comes into an inheritance her mother (voiced by Sandra Oh) never told her about—when she gets emotional, she transforms into a giant red panda. ALISON WILLMORE POP MUSIC 3. Listen to Crash Charli XCX’s new effervescent set. Atlantic Records, March 18. British singer-songwriter Charli XCX is back outside…

ON THE FIRST Sunday in March, Emmanuel De La Rosa was speeding across the Williamsburg Bridge. It was the first leg of a 20-mile “ride out”—from a skate park on the Lower East Side into Brooklyn, up to Queens and then back across the Manhattan Bridge—with 300 or so others. This particular ride out was in celebration of three birthdays, and unlike De La Rosa’s own seven-degree birthday outing in January, people actually showed up: “They looked a little rusty on the bikes, but it was good to see them back out,” he says. Organized over Instagram and by knowing who’s who on the scene, the rides have been happening in the city on various scales for years now. These two-wheeled herds used to stress out the cops, who would…

BY (FIRST ROW) Anastasiia Mokhina, Aleksey, Viktoriia Khutorna, Petro Chekal, and Nasta and Victor Dobrovolskyi, Anastasia Kovalchuk, Julia Berdiyarova, and Victoria Vlasenko. (THIRD ROW) Matsiiovskyi, and Yasia Myroshnychenko. (FOURTH ROW) Masha Varnas, Liana Muradian, Vova Prylutskyi, Leonid. (SECOND ROW) Daria Holovatenko, Danyil Zadorozhnyi, Mariia Shuvalova, Inna Zadorozhnaya, Anastasiia Viekua, Katya Vasiukova, Vika Zavhorodnia, Lisa Bukreyeva, Alexander, Roman Vydro, Markiian Yehor Shatailo, Polina Polikarpova, Lesyk Yakymchuk, Svyatoslav Fursin, and Sana Shahmuradova.…

1. ALTAR 6, $850 Laila Lott, a designer and jeweler, grew up attending Coptic Orthodox church services with her family, and this lamp is inspired by the smoke rituals she saw there. It’s made of wood and ceramic tiles with a salvaged church bulb in the center. 2. MELLOW GLOW NO. 4: LOUNGER, $1,200 This is part of an ongoing series by Ryan Patrick Martin, a Ridgewoodbased painter and sculptor. “It was tricky,” he says. “At first, the base was a solid purple and the ball was a darker blue, but I tend to overwork things until they get loud and crazy. That happened here when I poured on the blood-orange epoxy resin.” 3. ELEPHANT, $1,500 Father and stepson designers Samuel Lambert and Darius Laprise made the strips of aluminum…

SOMETIMES IT LOOKS like a crazy pigsty,” fashion designer and boutique owner Maryam Nassir Zadeh admits, laughing, while standing in the bright white Noho loft that she and her two daughters, Anais, 11, and Lune, 9, have lived in for the past three years. “But that is life!” This apartment might look familiar if you happen to be one of the thousands of people who follow her brand’s Instagram, as she posts from it a lot. And why not? “It’s one of a kind. I can’t take credit for anything except moving in and my aesthetic touches,” she says. The renovations started back in the late 1970s. “There are a lot of patterns of triangles,” she notes, along with built-ins and storage nooks. She was born in Tehran (her family…

WHAT DO WE WANT in a show about a scam? Most of the series out this year—Inventing Anna, Super Pumped, Joe vs. Carole, and, starting March 18, WeCrashed—leave the question unanswered, or answered in the negative (“Not this”). Scam shows’ appeal is achingly obvious. Most are about recent high-profile news stories, about money and power and at least one idiot. There’s the corporate-America aspect and the Robin Hood–esque, rob-from-the-rich potential. All seem like such clear targets. The trouble is it’s easy to be sloppy. Too often, it feels as though we’re being insufficiently scammed. It turns out that what I want in a scam show is The Dropout, Hulu’s new series about Elizabeth Holmes, creator of the blood-testing company Theranos. None of it would work without the lead performance by…